Mostly About Organized Crime

06/05/2015

The ongoing investigation into the so-called Mafia Capitale in Rome, Italy has resulted in the arrest of 44 more defendants for their alleged roles in a bribery and bid rigging scheme pursuant to which public money for immigrant services was directed to organized crime as reported by James Dunn for the Daily Mail.

Massimo Carminati, the supposed boss of Mafia Capitale, was among those rounded up last December in the initial bust targeting the alleged racket.

04/28/2015

Italian police have seized assets worth 25 million euros ($27.4 million) from Ernesto Diotallevi further to their investigation of the so-called Mafia Capitale which was busted last December for allegedly scheming with corrupt politicians to rig bids and embezzle money on government contracts, and prosecutors believe the 70-year-old Diotallevi is the Rome representative of Cosa Nostra or the Sicilian Mafia as reported by ANSA.

01/22/2015

Italian police are having a busy day as they round up suspected mobsters from among the country's various Mafia groups in unrelated actions.

First: Natale Trimboli from the 'Ndrangheta or Calabrian Mafia has been nabbed after four years on the run as reported by ANSA: "Trimboli . . . was on the Interior Ministry's list of dangerous fugitives and was wanted for crimes dating back to the 1990s."

Next: 24 suspects with supposed ties to the Camorra or Neapolitan Mafia were busted for their alleged roles in rigging bids on government contracts which were "awarded to businesses belonging to the powerful Casalesi clan, with the support of local politicians and administrators" as reported by ANSA.

Finally: 32 defendants allegedly linked to Sacra Corona Unita or the Puglian Mafia variously have been charged with the usual rackets such as extortion and drugs as reported by ANSA.

01/20/2015

Italian police have arrested 30 or so suspects from the Pizzata clan of the 'Ndrangheta or Calabrian Mafia for alleged crimes in Rome including the January 2013 murder of rival Vincenzo Femia from the Nirta-Scalzone clan as reported by ANSA. Femia was sprayed with at least nine bullets while sitting in his car outside the city.

The 'Ndrangheta from Italy's southern Calabria region is deeply entrenched in the country's capital city, and prosecutors said today that the crime group views "Rome as the future" and "is considered strategic" as reported by The Associated Press. The 'Ndrangheta controls the European cocaine trade, and launders its drug money in Italy's wealthier central and northern regions including Lazio where Rome is located. Earlier this year Italian authorities seized assets worth 420 million euros -- nearly $600 million -- including several shops and businesses in Rome from suspected clans of the Calabrian Mafia as reported by ANSA.

The Calabrian Mafia through the Mancuso clan also supposedly has ties to Massimo Carminati and his so-called Mafia Capitale which was busted in Rome last month for allegedly scheming with corrupt politicians to rig bids and embezzle money on government contracts as reported by ANSA. Yesterday an Italian judge denied bail to Salvatore Buzzi who is accused of being the middle man between Carminati and the politicians as reported by ANSA.

The Mafia no longer is contained in Italy's south; it's freakin' everywhere in that cursed country.